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Jackalope Theatre Company’s The Singularity Play
CHICAGO – Jackalope Theatre Company continues its 16th season at Edgewater’s Berger Park, 6205 N. Sheridan Rd., with the world premiere of The Singularity Play,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hedwig and The Angry Inch
With music and lyrics by Stephen Trask and a book by John Cameron Mitchell, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch” follows the journey of Hedwig Robinson,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing in Montgomery, Alabama, a segregationist senator and the state librarian clash over the content of a children’s book…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Alabama Story
As the Civil Rights movement is brewing in Montgomery, Alabama, a segregationist senator and the state librarian clash over the content of a children’s book…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Boy Gets Girl
Boy Gets Girl by Rebecca Gilman The life of a successful career woman takes a terrifying turn when a seemingly innocent blind date spirals into…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Elephant in the Room by Priyanka Shetty
South Asia Institute presents the Chicago debut with just two exclusive shows of “The Elephant in the Room”, a critically acclaimed one-woman show by Priyanka…
Theatre & Performing Arts
CLUE Live on Stage!
A mansion. A murder. A mystery. Murder and blackmail are on the menu when six mysterious guests assemble at Boddy Manor for a night they’ll…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Fat Ham
A boisterous Southern cookout sets the scene for a Black, queer discovery of self and resilience in this Pulitzer Prize-winning, five-time Tony nominated “uproarious reimagining…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Jackalope Theatre Announces “Dummy in Diaspora”
Jackalope Theatre Company is proud to announce the United States premiere of one of the hits of the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Dummy in Diaspora,…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
The Original Improv Gladiators: season 37!
What started as an idea to fill a recently vacated production slot back in January of 2008 has turned into a sure-fire hit improv-aganza and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Bramble Theatre Company’s Festival of Unfinished Work
CHICAGO – Bramble Theatre Company, is proud to announce the third annual Festival of Unfinished Work at the new Bramble Arts Loft located on the…
Theatre & Performing Arts
A Raisin in the Sun
New York Drama Critics Award winner, Tony Award nominee for Best Play, and the first play written by a Black woman to be produced on…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Dinner with Friends
Bluebird Arts kicks off its sixth season with Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends at Theater Wit (Chicago, IL). The show runs Saturday, October 19 through…
Music & Comedy
Tom Segura: Come Together Tour
One of the biggest touring comedians, Tom Segura, is bringing his new global stand-up comedy tour Tom Segura: Come Together to Chicago at United Center…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Fool for Love
In a sweltering motel room in the Mojave Desert, May and Eddie lick their wounds and get ready for another relentless round. This brawl is…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Betrayal
Stage and screen stars Helen Hunt (Oscar, Emmy, Golden Globe Awards), Robert Sean Leonard (Tony Award) and Ian Barford (Tony Award nominee) form the “eternal…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Mr. Parker
Terry Parker is a middle-aged man navigating life after a profound personal loss. As he works to rediscover his identity and adjust to unexpected changes,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Ballet Folklorico de Mexico: Amalia Hernández
Celebrate the stunning and visually opulent history, culture, music, and dance of Mexico with one of the most famous dance companies in the world featuring…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Gift Theatre Presents the World Premier of Cygnus
The Gift Theatre, is proud to present the world premiere of Cygnus, written by Susan Soon He Stanton, award-winning writer and producer of HBO’s “Succession”…
Music & Comedy, Theatre & Performing Arts
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Prokofiev
The cool of the Arctic meets the warmth of Italy. The brooding, majestic themes of Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony evoke the remote landscapes of conductor Santtu-Matias…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Redtwist Theatre Presents Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
CHICAGO – Award-winning Redtwist Theatre announces an original adaption of William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, by Artistic Director of Development Dusty Brown, Caroline Kidwell and Jordan…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Porchlight Music Theatre Presents the Tony Award-Winning Fun Home
Porchlight Music Theatre presents the Tony-award winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musical Fun Home, opening January 16, 2025, at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts,…
Theatre & Performing Arts
Hedda Gabler
Hedda Tesman returns from her honeymoon to the brutal banality of domestic life: an agonizingly bland husband; a living room full of dying flowers; and…
Theatre & Performing Arts
The Lincoln Lodge
The Lincoln Lodge stand-up comedy and variety showcase plays every Friday and Saturday night in Chicago’s glamorous Logan Square! In addition to The Lodge’s rotating…
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